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SOFT BOTTOM MACRO FAUNA SPECIES COMPOSITION IN FAROESE FJORDS
Ratcd %
57.4 Surface deposit-feeding B
27.9 Burrowers + Burrowers/Carnivores B+BC
10.4 Camivores C
11.4 Carnivore + Burrowers/Camivore C+BC
11.6 Camivore + Burrowers/Camivore C+BC+C/F/S
9.2 Filter feeders/Suspension feeders F
17.0 Filter feeders/Suspension feeders (total) F (total)
8.5 Herbivores/Camivores H/C+H/C/F+H/S/B
Table 5. Summarized percentages of the different feeding types from table 4a and 4b.
fanns. These are usually at least 200 me-
ters upstream from nearest impact source.
Although there are a fair amount of pa-
pers about the marine benthic fauna in
Faroese waters, there are no published data
from the Faroe Islands on species compo-
sition and quantity of the fauna. There are
although a few reports, mostly from Skála-
ljørður, and a few from other ijords and a
single report comparing two sites on the
Faroese shelf.
Skálaíjørður is a sillfjord with low oxy-
gen concentrations in the near bottom
water in the deeper parts of the ijord in late
summer/early autumn. The samples taken
at Glyvrar (10) in Skálafjørður are from
45-meters depth and the fauna is therefore
not under influence of low oxygen concen-
trations (Gaard et al. 1990).
Nørrevang (1990) reported from an in-
vestigation on Faroese sillfjords. Jørgensen
(1993) made a comprehensive investiga-
Skálafjørður Kaldbaks- fjorður Sundini south Funnings fjorður
SK01 SK07 SKl 1 KA05 SU15 SU37 FU07
Plioronis sp 1 2 2 2 3
Thyasira sp 2 3 4 3 4 1 1
Heleromastes filiformis 3 4
Abra nitida 4 5 3 1 2 2
Goniada maculata 5
Myriochele oculata 1 1 4 1
Ennucula tenuis 5 5
Lanice conchUega 5
Aricidea jeffreysii 3
Nephtys ciliata 4
Capitella capitata 5
Chaetozone setosa 2
Diplocirrus glaucus 3
Ampharete baltica 4
Nephtys hombergi 5
Table 6. A summarized list of the 5 most abundant species from seven stations in (Nønevang, 1990). All data
are 0.1 m2 average from tree replicate grab samples except SK01 which is from a single sample.